Is a 150 euro fine for crossing a zebra crossing when the light was red an appropriate sanction?
No it isn't.
What about a 500 euros fine for telling the fat, bored, incompetent, smegbreathed, cowardly, pig-eyed, power-starving illiterate Belgic police officer who has just fined you said 150 euros to sell his shit to the tourists and go check the Moroccan thugs that are beating the crap out of a harmless drunk guy just down the street instead of taking the piss out of a mostly law-abiding citizen who is actually PAYING more taxes than anyone in his puny country to finance his wanky salary ?
It's called an abuse of power.
I am not paying a quarter of a third of a tenth of half a eurocent. Don't believe me? Try me, cuntwipe.